Discover the alternative oriental music scene in the Arab countries with bands from Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Palestine & Egypt. Classical oriental, oriental jazz, fusion, rap: each CD is the unique expression of an artist or a band's personality. Yet they all have one thing in common: they breathe with our middle-eastern culture.
André Msane is a highly versatile oud player, equally at ease with modal improvisations ("Taqâsîm"), Lebanese song, Arabic popular music and the hymns of the great Syriac tradition.
Seven highly talented "stunt performers" standing on the balcony of ‘the first floor’ (which is the meaning of the band’s name) and ready to hit the street.
When a group of seven young, talented, and highly inventive musicians get together to rehearse daily for six months on the first floor of a derelict building, the end result is ‘Qarar Izala’, the
The musicians of the group Hewar, who pursue their careers in different continents, have taken “9 days of solitude” off their busy schedules to record this new piece of work, thus pursuing their m
